Earthbound has the most amusing anti-piracy program. EVER. From my understanding, the Earthbound cartridge has some kind of chip embedded in it. When you get to the last boss in the game, the game runs a check to see if that chip is there. If the game does not find the chip, it decides the game is a pirated copy. What does it do? It freezes the game before you can fight the last boss, and deletes the save file. That made me laugh.

haha the batman arkham asylum creators did something the same. they made ilegal copies unable to glide, so they couldnt cross large gaps.-on forums-"dude, something seems wrong with the gamecode""no, there is just something wrong with your moral code"

Relmitos wrote:Earthbound has the most amusing anti-piracy program. EVER. From my understanding, the Earthbound cartridge has some kind of chip embedded in it. When you get to the last boss in the game, the game runs a check to see if that chip is there. If the game does not find the chip, it decides the game is a pirated copy. What does it do? It freezes the game before you can fight the last boss, and deletes the save file. That made me laugh.

Deletes ALL the files, in fact. Not only that, but it makes more enemies appear throughout the game too.